ORF Global Quarterly V1
ORF America
Governing the Southern Urban Century

By Dhaval Desai

Urbanisation in Asia and Africa will intensify pressure on land and infrastructure amidst worsening climate hazards and the growing need to curb carbon emissions. The defining innovation of this urban century will therefore be institutional: building the authority, fiscal capacity, and governing systems that cities need to adapt before unsustainable urban form and inequality become entrenched.

Governing the Southern Urban Century
Technology Policy
ORF America
Rethinking High-Skill Labor Mobility Between ...

By Soumya Bhowmick

Countries that invest in portable, industry-relevant skills will be better placed to build domestic capabilities and to engage global labor markets on more equal terms, whichever way the politics of migration turns.

Rethinking High-Skill Labor Mobility Between the United States and India
ORF Global Quarterly V1, Economic Development
ORF America
Framing an Effective Policy Response to ...

By Caroline Arkalji and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

Framing an Effective Policy Response to South–South Migration
Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
Building a U.S.–India Sports Partnership

By Taruka Srivastav

For American policymakers, a sports partnership with India is an opportunity to expand commercial engagement, strengthen educational partnerships, advance sports governance, and deepen people-to-people ties with one of the world’s fastest-growing sporting markets.

Building a U.S.–India Sports Partnership
Energy & Climate
ORF America
Can Sodium-Ion Batteries Diversify the Global ...

By Suhani Jaggi

Sodium-ion’s technical and economic benefits are real, but its strategic value depends on supply chains deliberately designed to reduce dependence on any single supplier.

Can Sodium-Ion Batteries Diversify the Global Battery Supply Chain?

Technology Policy

The U.S. Defense Industry Still Faces a Chip Challenge

The U.S. Defense Industry Still Faces a Chip Challenge

By Jeffrey D. Bean and Andreas Kuehn

Looking ahead, as the Department of Defense strives to incorporate and utilize more AI chips, it will need to secure access to leading nodes for edge chips and the confidence in pathways to use greater allocations of secure cloud services for advanced computing.

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The Latticework: Updated U.S. Partnerships for an Era of Technology

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The Latticework: Updated U.S. Partnerships for an Era of Technology

By Andreas Kuehn

With the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election taking place in less than 2 months, a recap of the Biden administration's efforts to achieve a "latticework" of international partnerships with like-minded allies is necessary as we look to the future of trade and technology cooperation.

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The Case for a Quad Technology Trade Agreement

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The Case for a Quad Technology Trade Agreement

By Satvik Pendyala

The revival of the Quad has yet to see success in international trade or more specifically rebalancing global supply chains. Could a Quad Technology Trade Agreement be the solution to the Quad's predicament while also increasing multilateral cooperation in the Indo-Pacific?

UN Adopts First Draft Convention Against Cybercrime

UN Adopts First Draft Convention Against Cybercrime

By Anneleen Roggeman

Earlier this month, member states of the UN Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime agreed to adopt the first global convention against cybercrime after three years of negotiations. The convention will be presented to the UN General Assembly in September, ratifying its legitimacy in 40 countries.

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